![]() The author has expressed a lot of escapism by way of wishful thinking, fantasies and a life that is equally good away from home. The play poses different aspects in regard to how the Wingfields manage to make an escape into their world of happiness. Such flow of imagination permits them to find escape routes from reality in coping with problems of everyday life. Williams has portrayed that as the world turns around, people have the tendency to look around their lives and imagine it as a world of dreams while others may look at it as a world of reality. Williams has set the play during a particular period in history and the character of Tom clearly indicates about the time and significance of the moods as prevalent during the period. ![]() It is a little unusual for a playwright such as Williams to have provided such specific and detailed versions in his script but he surely had a clear image in wanting to be sure about presenting it the way he wanted to in keeping with his imagination. His directions in the play have gone into great details in explaining the settings and the moods he desired for the play. The Glass Menagerie is described as more of a memory play which is how Tennessee Williams has portrayed. ![]()
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